The Arizona champion., 1887-05-07
LOCHL MATTERS.

lN Improvements are showing around stown on every hand.
 Track laying recommended on the Mineral Belt last Thursday.
 The Holiness band departed for Cal. ifornia yesterday morning.
 The usual services will be held Tn the new church tomorrow,
 J. A, Mcnayhan left town on Thurs. day evening going westward.
 K. M. Sanford came up from Pres colt on Wednesday morning.
 Hon. ". H. Ashurst has returned to town from his cattle range.
 For gents furnishing goods in all the latestslyles call at Nathan Barth's.
 The CHAMPION office is now thor eughly equipped for all kinds of fine job work.
 E. S. Clark, cashier of the Bank of Flagstaff, went eastward on business this week.
 c. E. Royce, of Williams, has bought the commissary of the Aver Lumber company, at that place.
 The CHAMPION office is now pre- I pared to do job printing in the finest style at the lowest possible prices.
 A Raymond excursion conveying si1ty-eieht ladies and gentlemen from the east passed through on Tuesday.
 Two d,Srable houses for rent or sale. Enquire of C. S. BoSMAN, agent. Office in Bank of Flagstaff.
 A time table is not of much use on ,he railway just now. All trains seem io be running on the go-as-you-please pias.
 Ii is now stated on reliable author fly that within few weeks the new depot buildings will be commenced here.
 The people of Flagstaff can be ac- cornmodated with all kinds of staple and fancy groceries by calling at Ma than Barih's.
 That tired feeling and loss of appe- l tite are entirely overcome by Hoods | SarsapariiIa, the peculiar medicine. | Try 1t and sec.
 Creatimprovements are being made l on the northern part of Gold avenue. Trees arc being cut down and tine road leveled over the mesa.
 There are constant complaints about delay in freight from the east. The Santa Fe road is so blocked up with cars that all travel is impeded.
 Railway companies have modified ! the arrangements for the national en- cs'nEment of the G. A. R. at Saint l.ouis, and will give the rouud trip 1 for xngle fare.
 btr. Dickens, the representative of ChTIsty snd Wise, the wool csmmis. sion merchants of San Francisco, is intcwn, on his return from the eastern par, of the territory.
 There is rumor of some further trouble sith the Nayajoes near Fort Defiance, in which white man was kiIled. Some troops have been or
  seied over from Wingate to quell the disturbance.
 Edgar Whipple, of this town, was married at Kingman, on April 28th., to Mrs. Guldian, of that place. The CHAMPION jotns the many friends of MT. Nhipple around Flagstaff in con gratulatlons.
 John G. Tinker, formerly a Jour nal-Miner typo, but now of the Flag stall CHAMPION, of which his father Is editor and proprietor, came in on yesterdays tram, to visit friends in Prescott.-Journal Miner.
 It is stated that street car line will be constructed 10 run cars between Flagstaff and Mill town and il will be put into operation as soon as the 4 track can be built and the necessary f equipments for running il reach here. ' The Pacific Weekly Blade publish ( cd at Santa Ana, California, states a that Cal David was brought up be- r fore the judge of the township court S charged with selling liquor to. h. V dians. The case was continued for [ one week. The holiness band have been hold r ing services in the new Methodist b chprch every evening during the week, r which have been largely attended and Il many have joined the church. On o Sunday afternoon last services were b held in Berry's saloon, at which a u arge number were present who lis- h ened attenlvely to the prayers and el 'xhortations of the members of the h. band. b Jack Hopwood was bitten about sl week since by centipede, while at ii, ranch, about ten miles north 'f town. He neglected it for several O, lays until his arm began to get Tn to a DC eariul condition from the poison of ur he reptile, then he came in and saw ac )r. F. C.. Cornish, who has been A reating 1t successfully. For several DC lays it was doubtful if the bite would at ot prove fatal, but under the careful at 1edical treatment he IS now getting, sh C will probably recover, although he or suffering great pain aud the limb is ha horrible looking affair. ta The Brannen addition, situated on an lc southern side of the railroad, at It ie eastern end of the town, is now nj eing surveyed and laid out in lots. VI